[comp.sys.mac.misc] Greedy Compromises?

philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) (12/03/90)

In article <1990Dec2.063922.23493@eng.umd.edu>, russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
|> How much is an australian dollar worth in US $?
|> If it is export duties, find yourself a constitutional lawyer with nothing
|> better to do than beat his head against the wall...  "No tax or duty shall
|> be laid on articles exported from any State."-- Article I, Section 9, US
|> Constitution.
Relax. There are no export duties for computer exports from the states.
Just a bug in the Excel document Apple uses for calculating foreign prices
(for example, the formula for computing prices in the UK uses $1 = 1 pound).
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu

bayes@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Scott Bayes) (12/13/90)

Re: NeXT catching up to Mac:

Lets face it.  The ROMs and the System are Apple's family jewels.  Now
NeXT has a rather potent set themselves (did I really say that?).  The
price of a truly sexy computer just HAS to drop.

Mac has a nice harem of applications surrounding it, something that NeXT
lacks.  Meanwhile, while we know what both companies are, NeXT seems
less prone to haggle over price.

I say "guard yourself, Apple" now that NeXT has turned pro.

Scott Bayes

(I can't believe I used that metaphor.  I'm usually such a nice,
charmingly innocent guy)